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Bill Radke speaks with Washington state elector Robert Satiacum, a Puyallup tribe elder, about his decision to go against the popular vote if Hillary Clinton wins the state. Satiacum, who spoke from Standing Rock where he was protesting the oil pipeline, said Clinton does not represent his America.

Robert Satiacum promised to uphold the will of the people. He is a Washington state elector. He agreed to cast his electoral vote based on who wins. Now he says he might not cast that vote for Hillary Clinton no matter who wins.

Also, this hour you have to wait to find out who will be your president. How will you spend that time? What's the wisest way to spend that time? And we're not all elections today. We will make case for why we should tear down I-5 in downtown Seattle.

The polls show Clinton leading Trump. Is there any reason to distrust those polls? Also, why do Canadians care so much about our election? And we've talked about whiteness on this show. Now KUOW listeners talk back about what they think of racism and being white.

Bill Radke speaks with Dylan Byers, senior reporter for media and politics at CNN, about the latest polls in the presidential race the day before America votes. They discuss the latest of Clinton's emails, Trump's Twitter account, and how much trust voters should place in polls.

Cubs win. Does that mean America's loveable losers are now the Seattle Mariners? Also, you'll meet a Seattle artist and filmmaker who's taking her son to the pipeline protest in North Dakota. And we'll tell you why you should go see robots building robots tonight in Seattle.

“For a lot of Americans the image they carry in their imagination of Indian peoples is teepees, war bonnets, and Sitting Bull at Wounded Knee and Custer’s last stand – these are those people. This is that place,” said Seattle Times reporter Lynda Mapes, describing the scene of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest.

“Once again, here we are. They’re getting chased off a piece of land that’s in the path of a pipeline.”

Bill Radke speaks with writer and radio host John Moe about the next team to take up the mantle of loveable losers in Major League Baseball. The Chicago Cubs gave up the title Wednesday night after winning the World Series. They ended a 108 year drought when they defeated the Cleveland Indians in Game 7.

Whoever wins this presidential election, they'll have to deal with the changing American voter. We'll show you how those changes might play out. One year into Seattle's state of emergency how has homelessness changed? And when you return to the earth, why not return as soil? We ask you to consider your own recomposition.

Bill Radke speaks with Katrina Spade, founder and director of the Urban Death Project, about the system she designed to compost human remains. She plans to test the system at Washington State University soon.